The W3C geolocation API is supposed to make getting your location via JS trivial, but I don't think that any of the desktop implementations (ff 3.5, gears) support gps devices yet. Could be wrong...
On 2010-01-14, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S <[email protected]> wrote: > The tricky part is getting the GPS coordinates into the browser. > As the javascript is running with limited access, it cannot directly > read the GPS data. > You need some sort of browser plugin (or frequent clipboard copy tricks) > to achieve this. > > Once you have the coordinates, you can use MapGuide's coordinate system > library to > project the coordinates from lat/lon into your map's coordinate system > (server side). > > Then it is a matter of calling ZoomTo(x, y, scale) in javascript. > > Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S > > On 14-01-2010 09:30, Thomas Grosser wrote: >> >> Happy New Year to everybody of this mailing list ! We want to show the >> actual (live) position in MapGuide OS while using a Laptop with an >> integrated GPS Receiver. Has anyone ideas how this can be realized ? >> Thanks a lot ! >> >> Thomas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapguide-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users >> > _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
